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Trump's deportation push sees LGBT migrants sent to hostile countries

Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has led to a controversial practice: deporting tens of thousands of asylum seekers to third countries. Among the most vulnerable are LGBT migrants, who are being sent to African countries where homosexuality is a crime. Maya-Anaïs Yataghène has the story.

Politics

The Deportation Project: "We welcome them, except the criminals," says Burundian President

The Burundian President spoke about the investigation of a consortium of international media, including FRANCE 24, on the agreements between several African countries and the Trump administration to accommodate people expelled from third countries. Burundi recently hosted a dozen of them. "B Burundi is a host country", explains Evariste Ndayishimiye, stating that her government only asked the United States not to "bring criminals".

World

Deportation Project: What the investigation reveals in Cameroon

France 24 investigated with Forbidden Stories the situation of several African migrants welcomed in a Yaoundé centre, after their expulsion by the Trump administration, under a secret agreement negotiated between the leaders of the two countries. To learn more about this investigation, Léa Peruchon, investigative journalist at Forbidden Stories, was the guest of FRANCE 24.

World

Deportation project: 72 journalists investigate US treatment of migrants

Under secretive deals with countries across Africa and Latin America, the Trump administration has deported thousands of migrants to countries they had never previously visited. Of the 25,000 deportations documented by reporters, the vast majority were sent across the border to Mexico. One of the journalists who investigated the story, Sofía Álvarez Jurado, explains how these people are forced across the borders to Mexico and what happens to them once they arrive.

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